Yahoo announced support for a new meta tag called "NOYDIR". The new tag will complement the "NOODP" meta tag that is already supported by all major search engines.
Yahoo, Google and other search engines often use the title and the abstracts that are used in Open Directory Project (ODP) listings or in Yahoo Directory listings for their search result lists.
The reason for that is that the editors of the directory assign the titles and the descriptions to the listed websites and not the webmasters of the sites. Editors often see websites differently than webmasters do. In addition, these directory descriptions often become outdated and it is very difficult to change the title and the description of a website in a big directory.
As many webmasters didn't like the ODP directory title and description in the search results on Google and other search engines, search engines invented the NOODP tag.
If the NOODP tag is used on a web page, search engines won't use the title and the description of the Open Directory Project entry for that web page. Yahoo now did the same with the NOYDIR tag.
Just add the following code to the <head> section of your web pages:
If you insert that code snippet on your web pages then Yahoo won't use its directory description for your website in the organic search results. If you also don't want that the Open Directory Project description is used for your website, insert the following in the <HEAD> section of your web pages:
If you use the new tag on your web pages than Yahoo will use the title of your web pages in its search results. The description will be created based on the content of the displayed web page.
Yahoo might still use the Open Directory Description so it is better to include both tags on your pages if you don't like your directory descriptions:
The NOYDIR tag does not mean that the link from the Yahoo directory won't be considered in link popularity calculations. A link from the Yahoo directory to your website will still have a positive effect on the link popularity of your website.
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